
UN report warns AI could soon use 3% of world’s electricity and more water than we need to drink
As AI models become cheaper and more attractive, they will likely encourage new uses and higher volumes of use – erasing any efficiency gains.
Independent Analysis and Reportage

As AI models become cheaper and more attractive, they will likely encourage new uses and higher volumes of use – erasing any efficiency gains.

It’s certainly not impossible for the One Nation leader to take the country’s top job – but there are several hurdles she’d have to jump to get there.

Even now, in an age of satellites and genome sequencing, the Earth still holds secrets.

Whether you call it a living funeral or a ‘bon voyage party’, a growing number of Australians are choosing to celebrate their lives before they die.

Two million Palestinians are being squeezed into a smaller pocket of Gaza, while Israel is preparing the ground for a longer-term occupation.

Defence Minister Chris Penk has inadvertently highlighted a major tension between increased defence spending and New Zealand’s nuclear-free policy.

Police Minister Sarah Jones said the current guidance gives the ‘wrong impression’.

Impact assessments prevent harm before it occurs. Circumventing the process before we understand the risks is misguided and a gamble with our collective future.

We need to reduce workplace isolation to support teachers’ collegial capacity to mitigate loneliness, bolster engagement and contribute toward more equitable school environments.

The Netflix show is missing a richer and more accurate history of queer and trans life during that period in history.

Racialized communities are systematically over-represented in police use-of-force data across 17 cities and regions. And this is rooted in ongoing racism in policing.

The employment benefit of a degree is large.